by Art Petty | Jan 15, 2019 | Career Reinvention, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
The term, attitude gets a bad rap most of the time. We associate attitude with words such as bad, uncooperative, truculent, antagonistic. When was the last time you heard someone say, “That person has an attitude,” and you interpreted it as a compliment? Attitude...
by Art Petty | Jan 11, 2019 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
Alchemy, according to Malouin in the Encyclopedia of Diderot, is the chemistry of the subtlest kind which allows one to observe extraordinary chemical operations at a more rapid pace—ones that require a long time for nature to produce. Newsflash, there are no...
by Art Petty | Jan 7, 2019 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The candidates were very different. One was the textbook winner—great pedigree, including top schools and a nice progression of assignments for name-brand firms during his first decade in the workforce. The other individual didn’t match-up well on paper. The...
by Art Petty | Jan 1, 2019 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
The Promise of the New Year: I’m as guilty as the next person of finding the annual resetting of the calendar a cathartic cleansing, where the failures of the past year are suddenly washed away and replaced by the empty and unknown space filled with promise and...
by Art Petty | Dec 30, 2018 | Career, Challenging Conversations, First Time Manager Series, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Strategy
For a change in the new year, skip the long list of resolutions save one—commit to engaging in a bit of open, positive rebellion at work or in your career. Navigated properly, you’ll be surprised how rebelling by changing your thinking and approach(es) might just...
by Art Petty | Dec 18, 2018 | Just One Thing, Leadership
A Nostalgia Trip with a Purpose: A cousin sent me a link to a group on Facebook for individuals who grew up in our old neighborhood in Chicago. Curiosity got the better of me, and as I scrolled through the images and posts, I saw the highlight reel of my childhood and...
